Lost Cosmonauts

Starting off with a blank sheet of virtual paper Added some 3-view drawings as canvases and trying to get dimensions figured out Starting with the fuselage and profiles That (after some despairing hair-pulling) seems to have worked nicely Now to make a start on making it look as much like a plane as it is ever likely to

I’ll keep it in mind as I still stop off on my way to Sweden to see family or Netherlands to catch up with friends (or at least I did in The Before when travelling on a whim was a thing people did) 15 minute bus ride is easy enough

Sadly I’m not working now otherwise you could have filled your boots

Wait... I spend 15 or so years going to Schipol twice a month and only just now hear about this place. Dagnabbit!

Thanks, I don’t have this but I’m hopefully going to get copies of a couple of the drawings from it. I’m currently making liberal use of the drawings and models on the Project Cancelled SIG group and Secret Projects forum

I don’t have a modelling bench to call my own at the moment but I still have access to computers so I’ll probably be doing a fair chunk of my modelling digitally for a while. A tiny part of me was tempted to check the wattage of the PC and make a mischievous pitch that this would be less than a tenner but I figured that we’ve all gotten our mileage out of winding up @Grunhertz already So... those silly sods at Blackburn proposed a small transport & airborne early warning plane for the RN that was... erm... aesthetically challenged. As the saying goes “if it looks right it’ll fly right” so this should have flown like a sparrow with a half brick tied to it. A start has been made

... very prescient as @RWG686 pops up you yank your chain (not a euphemism)

The police round Cumnock in about 1993/94 used to have a Maestro (I’ve no idea how badly you need to screw up to be landed with that as a police car but someone managed it). My white one must have looked similar in the rear view mirror as I saw a lot of very careful drivers

Was it really the car that was the problem? (& I say this as a former Austin Maestro driver who was disappointed to find on replacing it (faded red Fiat Uno) that the motor was not the limiting factor to my allure)

Looks like about £200 and you could build your own open-source scanner https://fabscan.org/ Complete kits are available if you don’t want the hassle of sourcing the gubbins yourself https://shop.watterott.com/FabScan-Pi-Bausatz-mit-Raspberry-Pi-3

Good lad, I did a couple of lasercut hardened aircraft shelters that should be released commercially shortly under license. If you fancy trying out any of my aircraft designs just give me a shout

Umm... Plagarising from elsewhere (but since I contributed to a great deal of it I’ll make no bones about doing so) http://www.thingiverse.com - free designs http://www.myminifactory.com - as can be expected, designs of minis for games http://www.youmagine.com - many free to download designs http://www.cults3d.com - free and paid designs http://www.pinshape.com - free and paid designs http://www.yeggi.com- a search engine for 3d models http://www.turbosquid.com - paid designs - some free, many not allowed to print http://grabcad.com - free designs http://www.cgtrader.com - paid designs http://clara.io/library - free designs http://www.prusaprinters.org - free designs http://www.tinkercad.com - free designs https://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/models/printable - Nasa repository of 3d files https://3Dexport.com - free and paid designs https://www.3dagogo.com - free and paid designs https://3dprint.nih.gov/ - bio medical models https://www.gambody.com/search - wide range of (mostly) paid designs http://wargaming3d.com/ - aimed at war gaming Other sources: As museums are increasingly digitising their collections you may find good quality scans of original artefacts ideal for modelling e.g. Smithsonian 3D collection includes a downloadable Bell X-1 https://3d.si.edu/object/3d/bell-x-1:6c69a6bb-55e6-4356-8725-120ff7f8d652 an Apollo capsule and many fossils which could be fascinating model subjects Other option is a search facility for 3D designs. here is one: https://www.stlfinder.com

Like an obstinate verruca

They used to take plastic waste etc. back to be turned back into raw materials but China adopted a ban on import of low quality recyclables (National Sword) so the waste and containers pile up https://e360.yale.edu/features/piling-up-how-chinas-ban-on-importing-waste-has-stalled-global-recycling

Quite the eclectic syncro pairing - like some kind of 1960s exchange program Looking all very good so far